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The StPaul Globe
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EASTERN REPRESENTATIVE
W. J. MORTON, _ , _
150 Nassau St., New York City.
87 Washington St., Chicago.
THE ST.PAUL DAILY GLOBE'S
circulation now exceeds that
of any other morning newspaper
in the Twin Cities except only
the Minneapolis Tribune.
THE St. Paul Sunday Globe Is
now acknowledged to be the
best Sunday Paper in the North
west and has the largest circu
lation.
ADVERTISERS get 100 per
*» cent more In results for the
money they spend on advertising
in The Globe than from any other
paper.
THE Globe circulation Is ex
clusive, because it Is the only
Democratic Newspaper of gen
eral circulation In the Northwest.
\ DVERTISERS In The Globe
™ reach this great and dally
Increasing constituency, and It
cannot be reached in any other
way.
RESULTS COUNT—
THE GLOBE GIVES THEM.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 27, 1904.
GENEROSITY MAY BE INSULT
The concessions announced by the
czar to celebrate the birth of a son
are, looked at from our standpoint, less
an exhibition of generosity than an in
sult. If there be a greater injury than
to deny to a man his own by the exer
cise of superior brute force, it is to re
store to him something of which he
has thus been bereft by violence and
expect effusive gratitude. The high
wayman who leaves you one coin out
of the contents of a well filled purse
does not pose as your benefactor.
There is announced in the czar's
manifesto a concession of money for
the benefit of the landless people of Fin
land; there is "amnesty for Finns who
have emigrated without authoriza
tion"; there is the remission of fines
upon-ihose Finns who refused to sub
mit to military conscription. In a
word, the Russian government, having
done its worst for Finland, having vio
lated the constitutional rights which it
had itself guaranteed, having tram
pled upon the liberties of a people,
having set to work deliberately to
crush out their language, their sepa
rate institutions and their national
feeling, now assumes the role of kind
hearted protector by remitting severe,
unjust and inhuman penalties imposed
because of resistance to its decrees.
Nothing could be more characteris
tic of the estate of Russia or the mind
of its ruler than this. The czar thinks
it a notable advance to limit mod
erately the custom of corporal punish
ment of adults; to abolish a custom
that carries with it unspeakable and
unbearable degradation to the outside
world. The amnesty granted for po
litical offenses in general is the only
portion of the so-called reform that
amounts to much; and even this holds
out no promise of moderated rigors. It
applies to the past only; and Russian
prisons may be jammed again tomor
row with the victims of an infamous
system. The system itself remains in
tact; and only a few individuals af
fected by it are temporarily relieved.
Without wishing to be either ex
treme or unjust in the choice of an
illustration, it seems to us that a fair
minded man cannot fail to be struck
by the resemblance between the atti
tude of the Russian government to
ward its Finnish subjects and our own
toward the Filipinos. What offends
one most is not after all the injus
tice done to the victim as the insolent
tone and manner of thought of the
victor. This is simply intolerable. The
gorge rises when one sees a despotism
that has wrought the last indignity
upon the helpless people of Finland
pluming itself because it moderates
certain penalties imposed on them for
defending their rights. But is it any
more offensive, more Pharisaical than
the tone of an administration which is
continually prating about the great
blessings it has carried among the
Filipinos, to whom it is denying
meantime the commonest and most
sacred individual rights and from
whom it withholds any promise for
the future?
We- have lost something very fine
and very precious in getting away
from the abstract devotion of an
earlier time to the rights of man as
man. There was a good deal of atti
tudinizing about that; it was often
ridiculous, but never sordid or vulgar.
It is worse than nauseating now to
listen to the calm assumption of a na
tion or a man that he or it is so su
perior as to be able to lay down laws
of conduct for another; to deserve
high praise for forcing upon that other
tlre-doubtful blessings which are called
civilization to hide the ulterior motive;
and especially to devoutly forgive an
other for resenting injuries. There la
no finer flower than gratitude, but it
does not grow from any such muck
heap as this.
Chairman Taggart goes about his
job like a man who intended to de
liver Indiana. And m that event it
might be as well for Washington to
provide transportation home for half
its population.
JOHNSON AND WINSTON
It would be impossible to name a
stronger ticket than the combination
—Johnson and Winston —which is now
most frequently upon the lips of Dem
ocrats. John A. Johnson appears to be
the practically unanimous choice of
the party for governor. His accept
ance of the nomination is now
certainly assured. F. G. Winston, of
Minneapolis, has intimated that he
would be willing to accept second
place, and no news could be more
gratifying to the party. Mr. Winston
would have been a formidable candi
date for the governorship if he had
sought it. He is one of those often
tried and always found faithful to
Democracy; a man of ability, of sin
cerity and of great strength with the
people.
If it shall please the representatives
of the Democratic party who are to
come together now in a few days to
name such a ticket as this, and if the
judicial nominees include the name of
John Lind along with others also fitted
by acquirements and temper to oc
cupy the supreme bench and to re
buke the outrageous performance of
the Republican convention, the way to
success will, it seems to us, be clear.
The people are ready for a change.
There is no harmony, no enthusiasm,
no faith in themselves in the ranks,, of
the opposition. Never was there a
better opportunity to redeem Minne
sota from the control of the Repub
lican party, and never was a combina
tion suggested better able to accom
plish the work. The Democrats of the
state are rarely fortunate this year
both in their chances and in the wis
dom of their councils, and we look to
see the state convention next week set
the seal of approval upon the wish of
the Democratic masses and open the
way for a splendid and winning cam
paign.
That revolution in Paraguay is
hardly causing the commotion that a
Republican primary in the Twelfth
precinct of the Fourth ward would.
WHY NOT
The letter of Judge Parker to an in
quirer, specifying his views on the
subject of Filipino independence, and
dispelling the impression, sought to be
conveyed by the enemy, that he is not
exactly in accord with the party plat-
form on this point, is admirable. Ha
says: "I am in hearty accord with
that plank in the Democratic platform
which advocates treating the Filipinos
precisely as we did the Cubans; and I
also favor making the promise to them
now to take such action as soon as it
can prudently be done."
This is an issue which the Repub
lican party cannot and dare not meet.
It dare not declare openly that it is
the purpose of the party to deny defi
nitely all hope of future independence
for the Philippines. The American
people are not yet so drunken with the
wine of imperialism that they would
accept such an announcement. No
Republican believes or hopes that at
any future time the Philippines will
form part of the union of states. Con- j
siderations of race, of geographical po
sition, of every kind of fitness, forbid it.
It must come eventually, therefore, to
a choice between independence and
permanent reduction to the colonial
state. But this the Republicans would
hide within a maze of meaningless
words. The one is the logical and only
possible interpretation of their policy;"
but it must be denied superficially for
fear of the effect it would have both
at home and among the Filipinos
themselves.
What objection can there be to the
policy that the Democratic party has
made its own? Is it not today the
glory and the safety of the republic
that, under the stress of high moral
ideals invoked in a war for humanity,
we respected the right and the hope of
Cuba? Are we not a million times
better off than we-should have been
had we annexed a reluctant and re
sisting people and held them in our
sullen thrall? Have we not every na
tional advantage that we could have
won from ownership? Are we not froe
from a host of unsolvable problems?
And is not Cuba and the future of
Cuba infinitely better for the noble de
cision?
Every honest man knows in his
heart that all these questions must be
answered in the affirmative. Every
such man knows that no other answer
is possible as to the Philippines." The
objections to vassalage are a thou
sand times stronger in their case than
with the Cubans. Everything that we
could win from holding: the islands as
possessions we can win by establish
ing, "as soon as it can prudently be
done," just such a protectorate over
the Eastern archipelago as we now ex
ercise over Cuba. National advantage
will be as well satisfied as national
honor. While to those people them
selves it will be as the opening of a
THE ST. PAUL GLOBE. SATtJRDAY, AUGUST 27, 1904
new heaven, modifying for the better
and expanding their whole national
character.
Let no man be blinded by the silly
pretexts and prevarications that serve
the Republican spellbinder on this
topic. We are told that such a prom
ise would promote Filipino unrest.
Are we to believe, then, that these
people, who fought Spain and fought
us for the idea of independence, how
ever illy developed it may have been,
have forgotten that aspiration? Is it
not today their foremost thought,
cloaked only by the expediency of
pleasing their masters? Will they ever
forget it? Ought we of the great re
public to wish them to forget it? And
is it reason to suppose that they will
be less satisfied or make slower prog
ress when their hope has been fixed as
a future certainty than they will with
their just ambition feeling the slow
and growing blight of despair? ,
But after all, the great reason why
we should be just to the Filipinos is its
effect upon ourselves. Every honoraJ
ble act is most important in its reflex
action upon the doer. It is clear
enough to any reasoning mind right
now\ that the possession of dependen
cies can be to us nothing but a source
of corruption and decay, following thi>
treason to our own ideals. It is clear
that we are immeasurably better off
without Cuba; and that the glow of
pride we feel when we note her ma
terial and intellectual and moral prog
ress is because we have aided that
growth by our voluntary sacrifice. It is
vital to our own character that we be
stow upon the Filipinos that which we
have written into our national confes
sion of faith as the inalienable right
of all men. To that great pledge we
cannot be false without degenerating.
Right and necessary as it is for the
sake of the Filipinos that we should
guarantee to them their independence
in the future, it is infinitely more in
dispensable to protect ourselves, our
institutions, our very national exist
ence from the corroding effect of the
ambitious woe that has destroyed all
those who have gone before. There is
and there can be no issue in our public
life taking precedence by its intrinsic
importance of that which Judge Par
ker has, in his letter, so well expressed
and emphasized. And we challenge
any man to give a reason that wll!
bear the light of day why we should
not tread this path of national con
scientiousness, why we should not be
true to the formative principles and
evolutionary laws of our republic.
Those who were disappointed at St.
Louis might drop in at the Minnesota
state fair next week and see a real
show.
IMPROVE THE SERVICE
The Globe said, when the propo
sal to abolish the union depot line was
presented to the council, that it ought
to be either abolished or improved;
with the distinct statement that the
latter should be preferred. That the
line is wholly worthless in its present
condition is a matter of universal
knowledge. If abolished, no one would
know the difference. But that it can
be and should be made what it was in
tended to be, an immense convenience
to the public and a valuable factor to
the city, is perfectly clear.
It has been decided that the line is
not to be abandoned. So much our
business interests have settled, and
settled wisely. Will they now take the
further step of insisting that it shall
be made what it was intended? For
this can be done easily, through proper
action by the council, without the least
hardship to the street railway com
pany and to the great benefit of St.
Paul.
At present the company carries the
expense of operating the line without
getting out of it anything worth men
tioning. The least spark of intelligent
self-interest would direct it so to
change its methods as to have the de
pot line a big factor in business and
in earnings. That it has not of its own
motion adopted this policy is the rea
son why a suspicion has prevailed that
it was trying to force the abandon
ment of the depot loop. But if it has
not wit to see or will to follow its own
interest, the council should aid it.
A few very simple changes, prac
tically costing the company no more
than it spends now, would raise the
union depot line to the first rank of
value to the public. A spur- track
should be built down in front of the
depot and one car be always standing
there, ready for coming travelers.
Cars should be run at intervals of not
more than two minutes. The loop
might very well be shortened. We
think it probable that if the cars ran
simply back and forth between the de
pot and Seventh street, it would, with
our transfer system, answer every
purpose.
However this may be, whether with
the shorter line or with the present
loop, a very few cars wouIS make a
real service; and the returns would be
so much greater that the company
would be financially the gainer. As to
the public, it would make all the dif
ference between a real and Aaluable
depot service and none at all; for that
is what the present wretched condi
tion amounts to. We shall think it
very fortunate that the project to
abolish the line was broached if it
leads the council to take steps toward
establishing: a service that the com
pany should have furnished long ago
for the .sake of public convenience and
for its own good, if it had but the wit
to see it.
Contemporary Comment
Not the First Time
There are those that sympathize with
Russia^ because her defeat is a defeat
for a Christian nation; but, as a mat
ter of fact, Russia is not wholly unac
customed to a drubbing at the hands
of pagan- fcoes. In the Crimean war
some of they most demoralizing defeats
administered to Russia came at the
hands of the Turks, who were then act
.ing in alliance with those two good
Christian nations, France and Eng
land. The Turkish contingent met the
Russians in repeated battles and se
verely defeated them. In the later
Turko-Russian war, Russia escaped
another drubbing only by a hair's
breadth.— Washington - Post.
Watching the Main Bout
Corbett and O'Brien have signed ar
ticles to fight in the fall, but the an
nouncement will attract slight atten
tion, as the Taggart-Cortelyou mill is
absorbing the public attention just
now.—Atlanta Journal.
Has Something Like a Cinch
There is some satisfaction in being a
czar. He is tne richest man in Eu
rope, and can afford to hire a trained
nurse to walk the floor with the baby,
instead of doing it himself.—Philadel
phia Inquirer.
That's What They're There For
Intimations are made that the cour
"tiers of the cabinet have been thrown
into ecstasies of delight upon perusal
of the first draft of President Roose
velt's letter of acceptance.—'Philadel
phia Record.
Needs a Little Coaching
'Thank heaven for John Hay," ex
claims the New York Sun. The prod
igal must be "rattled." For all the good
things of life we are taught to thank
not heaven, but the g. o. p.—Albany
Argus. \ /
Yet Tom Thinks It's Scared
If Wafi\>n. and Tibbies had not been
notified over near Wall street perhaps
Wall street never would have heard
that they were running for something.
—Rochester Herald.
Plenty of Trouble in Sight
It will be noted that there is no let
up in the intensity of the strike situa
tion, as the election draws near. No
wonder Mr; Cortelyou is worried.—At
lanta Constitution.
Giving Him Plenty of Warning
The president was held up by a flood
in New Jersey, and the Democrats are
planning to have him held up there by
a landslide in November.—Washington
Post.
Both Are Losing Votes for Him
Tom Watson may be Chairman Cor
telyou's right bower, but Dr. Swallow
is throwing cold water by the bucket
on Mr. Roosevelt. —Baltimore Sun.
And a Dozen if He Wants To
Candidate Tom Watson scorned to
limit himself to one presidential term.
He will take a second term if he can
get it, b'gosh!— Chicago Tribune.
T PERSONAL MENTION
; George J. McCarthy, Associated: Press
opera tor- at Tacoma.Wash.,. who has been
visiting friends In this city the past two
weeks, returned to his home this morn
.ing.';.;,.. ,-■.:■./>-. - I; .;-.: : >;; w? •.,.;-,- ..T
Gov. and Jus. Frank White, of B.is
marck. N. D., were in St. Paul yester
day afternoon for- a few hours. They left
last night for Chicago and Illinois points
for a few days" visit with friends
Col. C. H. Whipple, Washington. D. C,
assistant paymaster general of the army,
is visiting Twin City friends for a few
days. He is the eldest son of the late
Bishop Whipple, of Faribault.
Rev. Father E. J. Conaty. of Grand
Forks. N. D.. one of the "best known
clergymen in North Dakota, is a guest
at the Ryan hotel.
Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Young, of Appleton,
Minn., are gue.-ts at the Merchants. Mr.
Young is the Republican candidate for at
torney general.
Ryan— FYarik J. Avers and wife. Wash
ington, D. C.;.-George P. White and wife.
Parsons; Fraiik Robertson. Portland. Or.;
A. D. Annis. Council Bluffs; Mrs. A. T.
Churchill, Burlington: W. N. Claggett.
Jefferson Cits\ Mo.; Walter Reeves and
wife. Streator; 111.; W. G. Vogel, Dayton,
Ohio; C. N. Perkins. St. Louis.
Merchants—L. C. Stanley and wife.
Chippewa Fjills; G. H. Strawbridge. Little
Rock. Ark. -j, A. Mann. Hawarden. Iowa;
N. E. Skelbbn. Bismarck; William Blake
ley and wi£e. Winnipeg; C. H. Hollis.
Brainerd; A. S. Lord and wife, Ashland,
Wis.; F. H. Barrett. Sauk Center; R. T.
Turner. Bismarck; E. B. Mitchell, Clin
ton, Mo.
Windsor.—H. R. Nelson. Lima, Ohio; T.
H. Skidnow. Grand Rapids. N. D.: Thomas
D. Pamp, Lansing. Mich.; H. C. Neile,
Freeport. :I11.: Uacob A. Freidy, La Crosse;
J. G. Babcock. Cumberland. Wis.; Henry
A.. Morgan. Albert Lea; R. T. Copley and
wife. Vancouver; J. H. Rohrer, Superior;
R. W. McKinstrey, Red Wing: J. C.
Blaisdell, Chokio; H. A. Chouinard, Kan
kakee, 111.
TODAY'S WEATHER
" WASHINGTON, D. C. Aug. 26.—Fore
cast: / ■'■-' ':■. . ■-;';■■'-- '■ ■ ■''"'
;. Minnesota—Fair Saturday, warmer in
east portion;" Sunday showers and cooler;
fresh to brisk southwest winds. '. :
.Montana—Fair Saturday and.Sunday. '
Northland South Dakota—Fair and
cooler Saturday; Sunday fair.
-Upper Michigan— Saturday, .warm
er in east portion; Sunday showers;. fresh
southwest to south winds. ' - \ ,
. Nebraska—Fair; i Saturday, '; warmer in
east, and south portions; Sunday fair,
cooler ;in .west' portion. ""■ r-.-y.-~- •
- Wisconsin —Fair.-: warmer : Saturday;
Sunday showers in north., fair in south
portion, .increasing southwest;winds:
:- lowa—Fair and warmer Saturday; Sun
day fair.-.- ;■-..-•-■ ■.-;,-, .-• -...-:■:?.>-
"-,- St « Paul—Yesterday's - observations,
taken by-the United States weather bu
reau. St. Paul. W. E. .Oliver,T observer, for
' the »twenty-four ; hours ;ended at \74 o'clock
last night—Barometer : corrected - for.; tem
perature and j elevation. Highest , tempera
ture 78; lowest .temperature. -. 52; average
temperature. 66; ' daily i range,', 26; t barome
ter. 30.12; humidity, ■• .74; precipitation. 0;
7• p. m. temperature, 75; ?7:p. ym. wind,
southwest; .'weather. clear. /..• v .
'•-■ Yesterday's Temperatures— ■ -.; v^. ■-
■ \.- •SpmHighl : : *BDmHigh
Alpena- •'—.v.V.62 72!Marquette 70 76
Bismarck 84 ; 92|Memphis . .:r.76-,' 80
Buffalo 1.'.T.TV.62 : 66|Medicine Hat-.84 84
Boston 'r:r.n :• .62-. 76|Milwaukee ...70 74
Chicago :vr.';' .".'.65 -66 Minnedosa '. ■..'. 76 , : 82
Cincinnati' ... .70 '74 Montreall .... .58 ;64
Cleveland^ iv:'.. 64; 66!Moorhead '-.. 80 • Bi>
Denver-'*-.i.'-: V. 82 -$ 88! New Orleans f .32 > 84
Dcs Moines ...72 i '■ 78 New» York tt . ..66 *70
Detroit ...'. .'•..64 ■: 72'Pittsburg ~..;:. 66 :72
nuluth :r::68 ' 78' Philadelphia .66 76
El Paso .: :. . 76 - S6!Qu'Appelle ...72 -84
Edmonton v: ....64 ' '*■ 68iS. Francisco .62 68
E«canaba-:'-'. v.-'f.64 70lSt. Louis :-.:70 74
Galve«ton .....72 ;SSiSalt Lake -: r. 80 80
Grand Rapids .64 ;-. 70|San - Antonio : 92 98
Green Bay 70 76 S.: Marie .6-' 70
Havre .:.~:?.*.: .84 -; 881 Washington ;.. 64• 74
Jacksonville .... 88! Winnipeg ....74 84
Los - Angeles ...80 88! ' ". ; ;. ; W-.--.
V,: ♦Washington r time : (7 d., m. St. Paul).
■'.-:;'-■- .":-..:; -.-"■-.■->,;. .—. — ~ ; - ;" --■-. :'■'-:
',: River- Bulletin— r . . " ■: '„, 'V
•:. Danger ■ Gauge Change in
L-/Stations. v> -; Line.': Reading. 24 hours.
:S"t.vPaul,:;?.'.v'.-.l4J^ ;^3:7^ : Ui-, : ; —<>-l
La Crosse 10 :. - 2.8 •". - *00
Davenport; ..-.".".■.15 . .^-.8 ""!„„
;St.'.;Louis:v...-..-:30v:"v v lA~' -v- *0.3
. ■ *Rise. —Fall. "• :-'.'-' '-'■-• - "••"'-."- ■'■* -.■>
,; The river will fall lightly at St, Paul.
AtSt Paul Theaters
"Terence," Chauncey Olcott's suc
cess of last season, has scored again
at the Metropolitan as it did last year
on its original production. Large and
well pleaaed audiences have given their
approval of the play. This afternoon
and evening are the last opportunities
to see "Terence," for tomorrow a re
vival is promised us of Augustus
Pitou's romantic comedy, "A Romance
of Athlone," which will remain all fair
week.
A matinee today at 2:30 and the final
performance tonight at 8:15 Avill end
the engagement of "In Old Kentucky"
at the Grand opera house.
The evolution of the Swedish-Amer
ican type of drama is shown in the
latest addition to the list of Swedish
plays, "Tilly Olson," underlined as the
attraction at the Grand next week,
commencing with a matinee tomorrow.
Heretofore the male sex has come in
for all the heroics, but this time the
tables are turned and the playwright
has made one of the fair sex of Swed
ish nativity the principal character in
the drama. Miss Gertrude Swiggett
will play the title role.
The Dainty Duchess company will
close an engagement at the Star this
week with two performances today.
The vaudeville specialties offered by
the company are of the best class, and
the engagement has been extremely
successful.
What the Editors Say
The Superior Telegram notes with
evident satisfaction that the St. Louis
county fair held in Duluth last week
was a failure. This reminds us of the
story told of the late Editor Barrett,
of Eveleth, who thus described a St.
Louis county fair: "The total exhib
its consisted of a pumpkin and a pig-
During the night the pig broke out of
his pen, got outside of the pumpkin and
then scooted for Wisconsin. That end
ed the fair."' It is claimed, that profit
ing by this sad experience, the exhibit
of swine at the St. Louis fairs subse
quently lu-ld have been confined to pig
iron and the steel trust.—St. Cloud
Journal-Press.
The Times has been an enthusiastic
advocate of the present primary law.
It is not so closely wedded to it as it
once was. The test of time has some
what shaken our faith in its effective
ness. Its tendency seems to be to
weaken party fealty and destroy party
responsibility. You cannot have gov
ernment without organization. The pri
mary law destroys organization; it
takes no cognizance of locality or of
conditions. It recognizes only the am
bitions of the individual, but forgets
the welfare of the people. We com
mence to think it should be modified
or repealed.—Crookston Times.
If the state game commission would
apply a little of its surplus enerpv in
protecting our trout streams instead
of a few prairie chickens which at best
are but a nuisance to the farmers, there
would would be less dynamiting and
poaching by the gentry who have not
the first instinct of a sportsman. A
salaried game warden for Fillmore and
Houston counties might affect some
much needed reforms. —Preston Times.
If Gov. Van Sant receives an invita
tion from the Republican state central
committee to speak in public about the
state for R. C. Dunn this fall, and he
refuses he is a dead duck; if he ac
cepts he's a dead duck anyhow. Peo
ple will ask him how it is that he is
now favoring a man whom he and his
friends said is unfit to be governor.—
Lake Crystal Union.
According io present indications the
new state capitol will be completed
just as soon as it is finished. This
statement may appear a trifle sarcas
tic, but it is the most reliable infor
mation which we have at hand. Even
the metropolitan press is«keeping mum
about it.—Lake City Republican.
There is certainly a lack of harmony
among the Republicans of Minnesota.
Unwisely the leaders of the Dunn and
Collins factions have let no opportu
nity slip to rip each other up the back.
This sort of thing bodes no good to the
state ticket. Let it stop at once.—
Janesville Argus.
Years ago Rosco e Conkling said that
"the shallows murmur while the deep
is dumb." Ever since the last Repub
lican state convention this year there
have been a lot of Republicans who
aren't saying a word.—Morris Times.
T Among the Merrymakers
Saved by the Rules
Secretary Hay was awaiting a reply
from the sultan.
"It'll be a long wait," said the chief
clerk, forgetting his position. "You can't
expect him to say anything when he is
unspeakable."
"Then our guns can be discharged, and
I guess I'll begin with you for practice,"
replied Mr. Hay, who was somewhat net
tled. «
The civil service rules were all that
saved him.—Cincinnati Commercial-Trib
une.
Diary of a Castaway
June I—Food and water have failed,
but we still have books.
June 15 —Our reading matter is running
low.
June 20—Today our noble captain is
sued the last novels to the women and
children, keeping nothing for himself but
Herbert Spencer's autobiography.
June 25—We are reading one another's
face.
July I—* • * .—Puck.
Its Reflex Action
"It's simply unaccountable, the way Kit
Garlinghorn is carrying on with * that
stupid young Sorreltop."
"Oh, I don't know. Her father told her
that as long as she had anything to do
with that fellow hei* pocket money would
be reduced one-half, and it's natural that
she should try to make the crime fit the
punishment.—Chicago Tribune.
Their First Hearing
Mozart was publishing his overtures. *"
"I had to make them to the cook, any
way/ he explained, "and I thought the
public might as well hear them, too."
Thus, indeed, are the mainsprings of
genius exposed to our understanding.—
Harper's Bazar.
Ghastly Effect
"I shall have to ask you," said the pho
tographer, "to assume a more pleasing
expression of countenance."
"Ain't I looking pleasant?'' asked old
Hunks.
"No; you're tryinggto smile."—Chicago
Tribune.
The Fissure Fisher
A fishy old fisher named Fischer
Fished fish from the edge of a fissure.
A cod, with a grin,
Pulled the fisherman in;
Now they're fishing the fissure for Fisch
er! —Yale Record.
Too Generous
"Wiggins likes to hear himself talk."
"Yes," answered the sarcastic person;
"it wouldn't be so bad if he didn't insist
on trying to share the luxury of his con
versation with someone else."—Washing-
ton Star.
Made a Hit
Tottie —I hear that Dollie made a big hit
in her vaudeville sketch last night.
Mamie—lndeed she did. She forgot her
lines just as naturally a*; if she were a
society leader.—Town Topics.
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WOMAN WOULD BE
A POLICE OfFSCER
Miss Lorna Higbee to Apply fo
Appointment as Such at
Playgrounds
Miss Lorna Higbee would be a spe
cial police officer of the .city of St.
Paul, on duty at the Como avenue
public grounds, but-the legal author
ities are disposed to hold that her ap
pointment is impossible under the city
charter.
Accompanied by Arthur Leland, su
perintendent of the playgrounds, Miss
Higbee, who is Leland's assistant, for
mally applied for the appointment yes
terday, and when the application comes
before the board of police commission
ers it is altogether likely that it will
be referred the corporation attorney.
The offices of the police commission
were visited, an appeal made fo the
mayor and the facts stated to the chief
of police, but all were puzzled by the
unusual request and passed along the
applicant. Miss Higbee thought that it
was absolutely necessary that she be
given a nice big star to pin on her
shirtwaist. With this she felt sure she
would be able to command obedience
from the big boys who flock to the
grounds and "sass back."
"Yes, we would like to have you give
Miss Higbee a commission as a police
officer," said Supt. Leland. "She will
be very careful. When lam not on the
grounds it is necessary for some one
connected with them to have police
power, and he have chosen her as the
proper person."
Mayor Likes the Idea
Mayor Smith was very sure that he
would be more than pleased to grant
the request, if such action was within
Ms rights. But he held that the new
charter takes out of his hands all pow
er over the police department, and rec
ommended that application be made to
the police commissioners. As the com
missioners were not handy appeal was
made to Chief of Police O'Connor.
In all his experience as head of the
police department this was the first
application of the kind the chief had
received, and he asked for time in
which to investigate. If there was
nothing in the charter prohibiting
such a course and it could be shown
that a woman officer was needed at the
playgrounds he felt that it was alto
gether possible that he would make the
necessary recommendation to the po
lice commission.
Charter Seems to Bar Women
An investigation shows that while
the charter does not prohibit the ap
pointment of women as police officers
directly it apparently does so by in
ference. Chapter 7 provides that all
persons appointed to the police force
shall have lived in the city for at least
two years, and that in all particulars
these appointed must conform to the
"standard of admission to the United
States army in all particulars," and as
women cannot be admitted to the army
it is expected that the corporation at
torney will hold that the same rule ap
plies to the police force.
. If Miss Higbee goes to the extent of
filing a formal application, which is
necessary before an appointment can
be made, the commission will act upon
it at the meeting to be held early next
week. If she is appointed she will be
the first woman police officer in the
history of the city, and as such will
naturally attract considerable atten
tion. Whether the star will assist her
in curbing the mischievous youngsters
is a question to be solved. Mr. Le
land believes that such would be the
case, and is desirous that the scheme
be tried.
INSPECT SITE OF
STATE SANATORIUM
Members of Board of Control Return
From Cass County
Members of the state board of con
trol, J. F. Jacobson, S. W. Leavett and
O. B. Gould, returned yesterday from
an inspection of the site of the pro
posed state sanatorium for consump
tives near 'Walker, Cass county. A
site was selected, but it is not probable
that building operations will be com
menced this season.
The state during the early summer
bought from different owners a tract
of 700 acres of land adjacent to Leech
lake, and the board members thor
oughly explored the tract Wednesday.
The land is for the most part covered
by a heavy growth of birch, oak, poplar
and young pine, though there is on
some parts of the land a heavy belt of
standing pine. The trees stand close
together and there is much under
brush and many fallen tree trunks.
Fifty acres of the land will be cleared
of underbrush and at some point on
this tract the state will erect its sana
torium buildings. The site selected is
about two and a half miles south and
west of Walker in a direct line, and is
high and commands a view of Leech
lake. It is 200 feet above the level of
Leech lake and 1,500 feet above sea
level.
Quite a large portion of the $25,000
appropriated for the sanatorium by
the last legislature has been expended
in the land purchased, and it is not
probable that any large buildings will
be erected this season because of the
low state of the fund. The board is
considering a change in the plan, ad
vising the legislature to charge the
counties from which patients come for
their maintenance at the sanatorium.
MAYOR RECEIVES
APPEAL FROM WACONIA
W. J. Kuntze Says Cyclone Rendered
750 People Homeless
W. J. Kuntze, chairman of the Wa
conia relief committee, has sent to
Mayor Smith the appeal of the storm
sufferers for financial assistance. It is
stated that the village is practically
wrecked and that 750 people were made
homeless by the storm, which was six
miles in width and destroyed much of
the property in its path.
Assurance is given by Mr. Kuntze
that all money received will be spent to
aid those absolutely in distress.
Gives One 90 Days, the Other $10 Fine
Ed Smith, colored, who cut Frank
Johnson, also colored, with a razor
while quarreling over a game of craps,
was yesterday allowed to plead guilty
to assault and battery in police court,
and was given ninety days in the work
house. Johnson, who admitted that he
was not averse to entering into the
combat, was fined $10 for disorderly
conduct.
JAMES N. SMITH IS
BORNE TO HIS REST
Funeral of Beloved Sunday
School Teacher Is Attended
by Three Hundred Boys
While the soft memory of his virtue rel
.Lingers like twilight hues when the bright
siwi i s set. —Bryant
Young men and boys with tear
dimmed eyes and old people with heads
bowed in grief gathered yesterday aft
ernoon at the Dayton Avenue Presby
terian church to pay tribute to the late
James M. Smith, 'the boys' friend,"
whose death occurred suddenly Tues
day morning.
Probably never before was there
such a funeral in St. Paul. While there
were only two or three relatives, the
nearest a brother, every person present
felt that in the death of Mr. Smith an
irreparable loss had been sustained.
Among the floral offerings, of which
there was a profusion, was a magnifi
cent piece sent by a man who remem
bered a service Mr. Smith had ren
dered him when a boy. This man, now
prosperous in business, was, when
struggling with hard luck, lifted on his
feet by the kindness of Mr. Smith.
Each one of the many beautiful tokens
came from some one who had been be
friended by Mr. Smith, and about 300
boys, who marched into the church in
a body, by their presence testilied to
their regard for him.
Rev. M. D. Edwards, pastor of the
Dayton Avenue Presbyterian church,
who conducted the service, spoke f •!
ingly of the character and work of Mr.
Smith.
Great Friend of the Boys
"Csing the Sunday School of the
Central Presbyterian church," said Ihe
Rev. Mr. Edwards, "where he had the
largest class in the city, as a medium
of reaching the boys. Mr. Smith was a
friend and counselor to every one.
They had confidence in him and he was
able to direct them in many cases bet
ter than their own parents. He did
not stop when he had finished the Sun
day school lesson, but took a loving in
terest in the boys at all times and was
ready at any time or at any place to
aid them.
"Hundreds of St. Paul men, young
and old, who have known Mr. Smith,
can tell of some good done for them by
him. His character was unique and
no one can take his place. For years
he has been molding the lives of boys
and young men, taking them off the
streets, picking them up at all kinds
of places and making them better by
his teaching and example."
Three Hundred Boys at Funeral
The gathering at the church includ
ed over 300 boys, many of Mr. .Smith's
personal friends, among them som.- of
St. Paul's old settlers, and a largo del
egation from the St. Paul Fruit and
Produce Exchange, of which he had
been a member.
Mr. Smith, who was sixty-six years
old and unmarried, had lived in St.
Paul many yearn, coming from Chi
cago. He was in the commission busi
ness, and several years ago suffered a
failure through the misappropriation
of money by a partner. After paying
his creditors a percentage, Mr. Smith
resumed business and within a few
years paid in full every claim against
the firm.
His whole life outside of his busi
ness was devoted to his boys and he
spent much of his time visiting them
at their homes and in looking after
their welfare. Three or four times
each year he treated then? to a dinner
at the Central Presbyterian church
and provided other entertainment for
them. He also organized and directed
a boys' brigade.
During the past three years he spent
the winters in England visiting hi 3
mother, aged ninety years, who sur
vives him. While away he did not for
get the boys and sent letters and gifts,
and when he returned brought some
souvenir for each boy.
TO PAY DR. APPLEBY
Probate Court Orders Payment
of Half of His Annuity
Dr. T. E. W. Villiers Appleby will
soon receive the semi-annual payment
of $5,000, being a bequest provided for
in the will of the late Cornelia Day
Wilder Appleby. as -in order to that
effect was issued yesterday in pro
bate by Judge Bazille. The order is
sued by the court was:
'•Ttfat the executors of the will of I lie
above named decedent pay forthwith
to Dr. T. E. W. Yiliiers Appleby the
sum of $5,000 out of the income of cer
tain securities set aside by said ex
ecutors, under and by virtue of ihe
last will of said decedent, to compose
the body of the 'Dr. Appleby trust,' and
due July 20, 1S»O4, and that -^aid execu
tors, so long as they are such, and so
long as said principal fund is in tln-ir
hands and under their control, or until
further order of this court in the prem
ises, pay a like sum of $.".000 to the
said Dr. T. E. W. Villas Appleby, f>n
the 20th day of January und the -'"h
day of July each year."
INSANE SWITCHMAN
IS SENT TO ASYLUM
Henry Hansen, Inmate of Poor Farm,
Tampered With Railroad Switches
Henry Hanson, aged forty-one year*
appeared yesterday before Judge Ba
zill* in probate court, and after being
adjudged insane was committed to the
asylum at Rochester.
Hansen was an inmate of the poor
farm and for several weeks has shown
traces of insar.iiy. His mania mani
fested itself in a desire to wander
about the railroad tracks in the vi
cinity and turn switches. He was ror
merlv a railway switchman. It was
feared that if Hansen were allowed
his liberty that serious results mm lit ;
obtain from hia tampering with rail
way switches.
Appeals From Appraisers' Estimate .
- "William P. Suitor yesterday filed no- I
tice of an appeal the awards^ of ,
the appraisers-appointed to value lan ,
owned; by him which were'condemned, j
The /appeal -was- tiled in the : district"
"court The Chicago, Milwaukee & St.
Paul railway desires to run its track*
through Suitor's property,' and the lat
ter objects to.-the 1 price.fixed by the
appraisers ; after th e lands had been
condemned. ...